SATURDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2025

SIEGFRIED SYMPOSIUM

Time:
10.30am – 4.00pm

Venue:
The Goethe Institut, Event Hall (upstairs), 
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road), Woollahra

Cost:
Wagner Society members (from anywhere) – $110
Guests (all welcomed) – $130
Students – $50

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ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

We continue our series of Symposia held in conjunction with the Simone Young/SSO Ring performances.

The symposium will feature papers presented by:
– Dr Peter Bassett (Wagner’s Siegfried and the Power of Nature)
– Livia Brash (on Brünnhilde)
– Professor Carole Cusack (Siegfried the Failed Hero, Brünnhilde the Redeemer of the World) and 
– Dr David Larkin (The hero’s (changing) journey: Wagner’s stylistic evolution in Siegfried), all giving us an insight into the third music drama of Der Ring des Nibelungen.

Our fifth speaker will be Daniel Linton-France who has been assisting Maestro Simone Young AM at Bayreuth and will be assisting in Sydney. The WSNSW is sponsoring the Assistant Conductor role for the SSO.

As with our previous symposia, in parallel with the SSO-Simone Young performances, the day will be catered with enough breaks for participants to continue conversations in the foyer and terrace of the Goethe Institut.

The day will conclude with some much needed refreshments and further mingling and informal discussion.